Android owners dump land lines, iPhone owners still go to Blockbuster

Android owners tend to be more technically minded and more likely to cut the cord to their home phones, but don’t care as much about recycling gadgets and tend not to read books.

Owners of iPhones, meanwhile, tend to be younger than other smart phone owners and are early adopters about activities like making online purchases and watching TV online, but they’re more likely to still rent movies from Blockbuster and probably don’t know what kind of TV they own.

Maybe it’s not a smart phone version of the book “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.” But a study released Wednesday by Retrevo.com, a Sunnyvale a consumer electronics website, shows “the gadgets you use say something about you,” said Andrew Eisner, the site’s director of community and content.

“Apple is not just a company, but a way of life and a commitment to a line of electronics, Android owners with their choice of carriers could make them more confident cell phone users and BlackBerry owners might agree with the motto slow and steady wins the race,” Eisner wrote in a blog post.

Some highlights:

- 31 percent of Android owners don’t have land lines at home, compared to 23 percent of iPhone and BlackBerry owners.

- 23 percent of iPhone owners are more likely than Android owners to rent movies at Blockbuster, while 22 percent are more likely to not know what type of TV they have.

- BlackBerry owners were 21 percent more likely than Android owners to still have an old tube TV as their main TV and get their music from the radio. But BlackBerry owners are 15 percent more likely to recycle gadgets and 26 percent “more likely than iPhone owners to live in areas where e-waste recycling isn’t available,” Eisner said.

The online study was conducted from March through July with more than 7,500 responses from Retrevo users, with an error rate of plus or minus 4 percent.